Images: 123KURUNEGALA, Ceylon postmark on ST. VINCENT stamp1899 QV 5/- green & blue (SG.75, Cat.£150 used), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger Smeets by bleaching out the design of used copies of the 1886 Ceylon QV 5c dull purple (SG.195) to a give a "blank" CA wmk P.14 stamp; only immediately given away by the indelible ink KURUNEGALA (Ceylon) and MR 24 95 dated cds which could not be removed.Few examples show trace of original design in the value tablet£100(STV53815)

Images: 1723 used SOUTHAMPTON on St. Vincent stampapplied on arrival being "loose mail" carried in the captain's bag placed in the post office on the first port of call on QV 1d rose-red (SG.5).£18(STV1282)

Images: 1ST. LUCIA (Smeets forgery) stamps: 1885 QV 1/- orange-brown (SG.36), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger Smeets by bleaching out the design of used copies of the 1886 Ceylon QV 5c dull purple (SG.195) to a give a "blank" CA wmk P.14 stamp; only immediately given away by the indelible ink KOTAGALA (Ceylon) OC 19 97 cds which could not be removed.£140(STL44396)

Images: 1GORGONA, Canal Zone postmark on Barbados stamparrival dated JUN 9 without year on 1905 2½d Seal (SG.139).Work on the Panama Canal started in 1903 and was completed in 1914, 17,000 canal workers were Barbadian£15(BAR45889)